A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated ...and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk.So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When I came out of prison,--for some one interfered, and paid that tax,--I did not perceive that great changes had taken place on ...the common ... and yet a change had to my eyes come over the scene,--the town, and State, and country,--greater than any that mere time could effect. I saw yet more distinctly the State in which I lived. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions, as the Chinamen and Malays are; that in their sacrifices to humanity they ran no risks, not even to their property; that after all they were not so noble but they treated the thief as he had treated them, and hoped, by a certain outward observance and a few prayers, and by walking in a particular straight though useless path from time to time, to save their souls. This may be to judge my neighbors harshly; for I believe that many of them are not aware that they have such an institution as the jail in their village.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Just walking around,An object of curiosity to some,...But you are too preoccupiedBy the secret smudge in the back of your soulTo say much, and wander around,Smiling to yourself and others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gende...r politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in th...e islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea..., or to local wealth, as mines and quarries, nor to laws and traditions, nor to fortune, but to superior brain, as it makes the praise more personal to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as i...t demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking--one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I've been in one Derby, and this is my third Belmont. But I've never thought of the fact that I haven't won a Triple Crown race. I...'m not like that. I always look at the sunshine of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »